Re: How to use emacs as a "diff3 -m" compatible merge tool?

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Tassilo Horn wrote:

>>> "emacsclient <file>" exits on `server-edit' (C-x #) (or
>>> goes to the next buffer if more than one file were
>>> specified on the command line) but won't make emacs itself
>>> exit. So there is an exit code for emacsclient but it seem
>>> one cannot influence it.
>>
>> OK, but is that hooked to whatever adheres to the interface
>> you showed,
>
> No, it's independent of my specific use-case but would be
> nice to have in general in scripting scenarios, i.e., where
> a script/program invokes emacsclient in order to let the
> user edit something where the user should be able to
> propagate back to the calling program if his edits were
> successfully completed or aborted.

This

  (server-send-string (car server-buffer-clients) "-error die")

?

https://superuser.com/questions/295156/how-to-set-the-exit-status-for-emacsclient

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